Anonymized Firm Data under Test: Evidence from a Replication Study

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This paper contributes to the literature on the use of anonymized firm level data by reporting results from a replication study. To test for the practical usefulness of anonymized data I selected two of my published papers based on different cross sections of firm data. The data used there were anonymized by micro aggregation. I replicated the analyses reported in the papers with the anonymized data, and then compared the results to those produced with the original data. Frequently, the reported levels of statistical significance differ. Furthermore, statistically significant coefficients sometimes differ by order of magnitude. Therefore, at least for the moderate sample sizes used here micro-aggregated firm data should not be considered as a tool for empirical research.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
Volume225
Issue number5
Pages (from-to)584-591
Number of pages8
ISSN0021-4027
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Publication statusPublished - 09.2005

    Research areas

  • Economics - Replicative studies, Datasets, Statical estimation, statistical significace, Aggregation, Business entities, Research tools, Applied econometrics, industry
  • Anonymized firm data, Micro aggregation, Replication study

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